Today I saw some unusual HDDs in the production area. The drives, with a massive 1000GB capacity had large GREEN labels on them – ‘GreenPower – Hard Drives by WD’
I then took a look at the test measuring system, and noted that these drives have REDUCED the power consumption of the already efficient T7-HSA home server boxes. The drives – from Western Digital – are an amazing piece of design and engineering – they actually have a substantially lower (50%) power consumption in IDLE state (no read/write). This means they consume approx 4W in IDLE – amazing. The T7-HSA (and other home servers) actually have a high HDD idle duty cycle – which means these new drives really will make a difference.
The benefits of these drives are numerous – Lower Power consumption = less electrical power costs, less heat, increased reliability, quiet operation… and just that little less of a carbon footprint.
Let’s hope this technology catches on – it’s good news, which ever way you look at it !!
Any word about the availiability of the 500GB version?
Reply - the 500GB units, with Western Digital GreenPower HDDs, will commence shipping from early next week.
By: ninja-lewis on October 1, 2007
at 1:01 am